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System Properties Comparison Fauna vs. LokiJS vs. mSQL vs. STSdb vs. XTDB

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NameFauna infopreviously named FaunaDB  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonmSQL infoMini SQL  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparisonXTDB infoformerly named Crux  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFauna provides a web-native interface, with support for GraphQL and custom business logic that integrates seamlessly with the rest of the serverless ecosystem. The underlying globally distributed storage and compute platform is fast, consistent, and reliable, with a modern security infrastructure.In-memory JavaScript DBMSmSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMSKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing methodA general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries
Primary database modelDocument store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Document storeRelational DBMSKey-value storeDocument store
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Score1.52
Rank#153  Overall
#26  Document stores
#14  Graph DBMS
#71  Relational DBMS
#13  Time Series DBMS
Score0.43
Rank#264  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score1.27
Rank#167  Overall
#77  Relational DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#360  Overall
#52  Key-value stores
Score0.11
Rank#343  Overall
#46  Document stores
Websitefauna.comgithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJShughestech.com.au/­products/­msqlgithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4github.com/­xtdb/­xtdb
www.xtdb.com
Technical documentationdocs.fauna.comtechfort.github.io/­LokiJSwww.xtdb.com/­docs
DeveloperFauna, Inc.Hughes TechnologiesSTS Soft SCJuxt Ltd.
Initial release20142014199420112019
Current release4.4, October 20214.0.8, September 20151.19, September 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Sourcecommercial infofree licenses can be providedOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license availableOpen Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageScalaJavaScriptCC#Clojure
Server operating systemshostedserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
WindowsAll OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenonoyesyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)yes, extensible-data-notation format
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyes infovia viewsyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infono subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggersnolimited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIJavaScript APIJDBC
ODBC
.NET Client APIHTTP REST
JDBC
Supported programming languagesC#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift
JavaScriptC
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl
C#
Java
Clojure
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsView functions in JavaScriptnonono
Triggersnoyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning infoconsistent hashingnonenonenonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationnonenonenoneyes, each node contains all data
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistencynonenone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDno infoatomic operations within a single collection possiblenonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesnoyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.yesyesyes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlIdentity management, authentication, and access controlnonono

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